Artha Global hosted a brown bag with Chinmay Tumbe, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, from 4:00 PM-5.30 PM IST. This was an in person, on-the-record event hosted at the Artha Global office in Khar West, Mumbai.
About the event:
The discussion, followed by the Q&A, ranged across multiple topics including pandemics and plagues, migration, economic history, based on Tumbe’s deeply researched book The Age of Pandemics.
About the speaker:
Chinmay Tumbe is with the Department of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A). He holds a Masters from the London School of Economics & Political Science and a doctorate from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He was the Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute in Florence, Italy in 2013 and was with the School of Public Policy and Governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences Hyderabad in 2014-16. He has worked in academic, corporate and government institutions in India, UK and Italy, served on an Inter-Ministerial Working Group on migration and his research has been featured in journals, newspapers and policy portals. His research interests include migration studies, urban economics and business & economic history.